Moro Crater massacre

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The Moro Crater massacre is a name given to the final phase of the First Battle of Bud Dajo, a military engagement of the Philippine-American War which took place March 10, 1906, on the isle of Jolo in the southern Philippines. Forces of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Leonard Wood, a naval detachment comprising 540 soldiers, along with a detachment of native constabulary, armed with artillery and small firearms, attacked a village hidden in the crater of the dormant volcano Bud Dajo. No American soldiers were killed, though sixteen were wounded; more than 600 mostly unarmed Muslim Moro villagers (including many women and children) were killed but none were wounded.

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• Mark Twain, Weapons of Satire, pp. 168-178, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1992

• This material is taken from the Humanities Digital Information Service of Stanford University [1]. Textbase is no longer available due to copyright issues.

• Responses to the Moro Massacre. An overview with Anti-Imperialism history in the United States